April 21, 2015 Cancun, Mexico Imagine having a net worth of $57 billion. That sounds like a lot. And for the few folks out there like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Vladimir Putin who have racked up such a prodigious amount, it is a lot. But not if you’re the US Federal Reserve. Just like how individual people can calculate their ‘net worth’ by adding up all of their assets (cash,[...]
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IMF Tells Regulators to Brace for Global ‘Liquidity Shock’
Financial engineering that preceded the last two financial crises is back, International Monetary Fund warns An illusion of liquidity has beguiled financial markets across the world and spawned some of the worst excesses seen on Wall Street in modern times, the International Monetary Fund has warned. Investors are borrowing money to buy shares on the US stockmarket at a torrid pace and are[...]
“We Have Come To The End Of The Road” – Greece Prepares For Default, FT Reports
Update: as always is the case in Europe, nothing is confirmed until it is officially denied by officials, so here you go:GREEK GOVT OFFICIAL DENIES FT REPORT GREECE PLANNING DEFAULT There was no explanation from the government official where Greece would get the €2.5 billion it needs to fund upcoming IMF interest and principal payments. * * * It should hardly come as a surprise that after[...]
It Just Happened: “The Moment the United States Lost its Role as the Underwriter of the Global Economic System.”
bySimon BlackonApril 6, 2015 Last week, the government of China closed the enrollment window to join its new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as a ‘founding member’. The AIIB, if you haven’t heard of this yet, is designed to essentially displace the Western-controlled IMF and World Bank. And prior to last Tuesday’s deadline, dozens of nations around the world from New Zealand[...]
Putin: More Members To Join BRICS Bank
BRICS are coordinating their policies on key international issues ever more closely, and are playing an active part in shaping a multi-polar world order and developing modern models for the world’s financial and trading systems. – Putin,The BRICS Post Vladimir Putin assumed the annual Presidency of the BRICS last Wednesday and Shanghai will be the host city for the BRICS headquarters.[...]
This Centerpiece Of China’s Plans For World Domination Will Shock People In The West
Today one of the top money managers in the world warned King World News about earth-shaking events that are taking place in the East. He also discussed the centerpiece of China's plans for world domination that will shock people in the West. Stephen Leeb: “Eric, as you know, for quite some time I have focused on East vs West and the East is really kicking our rears right now. The[...]
Russia joins China-led Asian Bank
Beijing’s staunch ally, Russia, on Saturday announced its decision to join the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the latest in the growing list of countries applying for membership, including US allies in the European Union. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, at the 2015 annual conference of the Boao Forum for Asia in the coastal town of China’s southern island[...]
“Belief That European QE Will Work Is Far-Fetched,” Bill White Warns This Will “End Very Badly”
As the title of Hinde Capital's latest note ascribes, we are on "The Road to Nowhere," and this excellent discussion with former BIS Economic Adviser (and teller-of-the-truth) William White explains it all.. "I'm not sure [European QE] is going to do anything - certainly, nothing that's good. The fundamental problem here, as I see it anyway, is that the European banking system is still broken... [...]
Why the U.S. is Letting China Accumulate Gold – James Rickards
A lot of people think about gold as a percentage of a country’s total reserves. They are surprised to learn that the United States has 70 percent of its reserves in gold. Meanwhile, China only has about 1 percent of its reserves in gold. People look at that and think that’s an imbalance. But those are not very meaningful figures in my view. The reason is that a country’s reserves are a[...]
The Economic Consequences Of Greece
Authored by Alberto Bagnai, Brigitte Granville, and Antoni Soy, originally posted at Project Syndicate, The first sentence of the 1957 Treaty of Rome – the founding document of what would eventually become the European Union – calls for “an ever-closer union among the peoples of Europe." Recently, however, that ideal has come under threat, undermined by its own political elite, which[...]